Justin Kruger

Institution

New York University

Current Position

Professor of Psychology

Highest Degree

Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Cornell University, 1999

Justin Kruger joined New York University Stern School of Business as an Associate Professor of Marketing in July 2005. Before joining NYU Stern, Professor Kruger was Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he won the Hohenboken Teaching Award for outstanding teaching. He teaches consumer judgment and decision making in the undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. programs at NYU Stern.

Professor Kruger’s research focuses on judgment and decision making, with a specific emphasis on overconfidence in planning and self-assessment, egocentrism in (mis)communication and conflict, and everyday heuristics.

Professor Kruger has published articles in several scholarly journals including Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Psychological Science. His work has been featured in Newsweek, US News & World Report, and The New York Times, as well as NPR and the BBC.

Professor Kruger received his B.S. in Psychology from Santa Clara University in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Cornell University in 1999.

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Primary Interests:

Causal Attribution

Communication, Language

Interpersonal Processes

Judgment and Decision Making

Nonverbal Behavior

Self and Identity

Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

Epley, N., & Kruger, J. (2005). When what you type isn’t what they read: The perseverance of stereotypes and expectancies over e-mail. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 414-422.

Kruger, J. (1999). Lake Wobegon be gone! The “below-average effect” and the egocentric nature of comparative ability judgments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 221-232.

Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1121-1134.

Kruger, J., Epley, N., Parker, J., & Ng, Z. (2005). Egocentrism over e-mail: Can people communicate as well as they think? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(6), 925-936.